There are people who are calling for the pause on development of LLM and large AI model development. What they don't make clear, and perhaps due to their misunderstanding of nature and technological progress, is that this is futile and forwards it will progress irrespectively.
There are certainly points worth debating over the concerns raised. Points such as a misaligned superintelligent AI being an existential risk to humanity. But do current developments justify the end? I personally don't think edicts to pause AI development are possible or sufficient to stop the models from progressing into more powerful ones. The pandora's box is open as they say.
There's already far more machine learning and deep learning models out there beyond the typical GPT everyone refers to. And these models are being used to create even better ones.
Computer Science has always progressed in a mostly decentralized way and these models are not really an exception. One team may make an initial breakthrough but other people will carry that mantle forward and the technology as a whole will progress in more than just one place.
Instead of trying to pause the development altogether (that is probably infeasible anyway) - we should be looking at ways to promote the safety of AI research and coming up with standards to work by.